Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Top Tip—Adding Color to Your Black & White Subject
If you’ve been following my blog, you must know by now that I love color. You may have also heard me say that “Color Is Irrelevant.” These two ideas are … Read More
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Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Finding Funky Fabric
This is the perennial question I receive: Where do you find your fabrics for fabric collage? Or as a recent student asked, “Where do you find your funky fabrics?” The … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Cicada—Second Draft Annotations
In last week’s post I showed how I reacquainted myself with my cicada collage begun almost a year ago, and then set aside for awhile. What was helpful is that … Read More
The Fabric Collage Master Class: Now Updated and Available by Subscription!
Using text, photos, and plenty of videos, the Master Class takes you through six steps and one project—explaining the entire fabric collage process in a variety of ways, with multiple … Read More
Red Fish, Blue Fish, Not-So-Goldfish: Fabric Collage with Susan Carlson
“Not-So-Goldfish,” that’s the name I gave to my goldfish collage above, because well, he kinda went off into his own color scheme as he evolved. It happens—especially when I limit … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Review 6 of 6: Using Sheers—Preparing for 2025 and Our Thursday Night Classes
This sixth and final review post below, is about using sheer fabrics: netting, tulle, and other semi-transparent fabrics. I often use these near the end of the collage process to … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Review 5 of 6: Backgrounds—Preparing for 2025 and Our Thursday Night Classes
I’ve been thinking a lot about the year to come and how I can add positive things to my own little part of this world, otherwise the outlook is a … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Review 4 of 6: Working in Sequence—Preparing for 2025 and Our Thursday Night Classes
Happy New Year! We are beginning 2025 with new projects in mind—colorful, playful, dive-into-your-fabric-stash sort of projects—with low-stress subjects that can help you (painlessly) learn all about the fabric collage … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Review 3 of 6: Why Glue?—Preparing for 2025 and Our Thursday Night Classes
This post will be the last post… of 2024! Yikes! That went fast! Probably one of the most overstated comments of this time of year—but I have to admit it’s … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Review 2 of 6: Creating a Palette—Preparing for 2025 and Our Thursday Night Classes
Welcome to week two of my Fabric Collage Review. This six-week refresher (or introduction) on the basics of fabric collage is in preparation for my upcoming live follow-along Zoom classes … Read More